1982 Rhode Island Rams football team

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1982 Rhode Island Rams football
ConferenceYankee Conference
1982 record7–4 (2–3 Yankee)
Head coach
Home stadiumMeade Stadium
Seasons
← 1981
1983 →
1982 Yankee Conference football standings
  • v
  • t
 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Maine + 3 – 2 – 0 7 – 4 – 0
Boston University +^ 3 – 2 – 0 5 – 6 – 0
Connecticut + 3 – 2 – 0 5 – 6 – 0
UMass + 3 – 2 – 0 5 – 6 – 0
Rhode Island 2 – 3 – 0 7 – 4 – 0
New Hampshire 1 – 4 – 0 4 – 6 – 0
  • + – Conference co-champions
  • ^ – NCAA Division I-AA playoff participant

The 1982 Rhode Island Rams football team was an American football team that represented the University of Rhode Island in the Yankee Conference during the 1982 NCAA Division I-AA football season. In their seventh season under head coach Bob Griffin, the Rams compiled a 7–4 record (2–3 against conference opponents) and finished fifth out of six teams in the conference.[1]

On September 19, 1980, Rhode Island defeated Maine in a game that took six overtimes to complete and was one of the longest games in college football history.[2]

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 11at Lafayette
W 20–109,500
September 18at Maine
W 58–55 (6OT)6,250[2]
September 25at Brown
L 20–2414,800
October 2UMassdagger
L 7–179,433
October 9at NortheasternBrookline, MAW 14–131,200
October 16Boston Universitydagger
  • Meade Stadium
  • Kingston, RI
L 16–2610,230
October 23Southern Connecticut
  • Meade Stadium
  • Kingston, RI
W 41–144,611
October 30at New Hampshire
W 23–206,235
November 6Lehigh
  • Meade Stadium
  • Kingston, RI
W 20–167,526
November 13at Connecticut
L 21–263,063
November 20Springfield
  • Meade Stadium
  • Kingston, RI
W 24–05,232
  • daggerHomecoming

References[]

  1. ^ "2007 Rhode Island Rams Football Media Guide" (PDF). University of Rhode Island. 2007. p. 115.
  2. ^ a b bob Haskell (September 20, 1982). "Longest game in history is one for the books". The Bangor Daily News. pp. 1, 10.
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